Elayne writes:
You were the first person I ever heard talk about Firefly, and I wondered what on earth you were so het up about. Then I saw the movie Serenity, and someone said, “Yeah, it’s based on the series Firefly,” and I went “ooooooooooooh,” and rented the first DVD of the series. The next day, I went out and BOUGHT the entire first series, and have been cultivating a stalkerish one-sided love affair with Mal Reynolds (that’s right; I’m in lust with the character, not the actor) ever since. I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but I checked your “geeky fanboy” archives and didn’t see anything – a reader of my blog just posted a link to Joss Whedon’s Firefly, Season 2 – apparently a fan-club is trying to work out a way to get a second series. I don’t know what the odds are (or whether the actors, writers, Joss Whedon, etc are aware of this/willing to do it) but I thought I’d drop you a line anyway in case you somehow missed it, and also to apologize for all those times I thought “What on earth is he even TALKING about?!” (c:
I love that I’ve turned even one person onto the show. I love that people bring stuff like this to me. Just gives me a happy. :)
You turned me to the show. You even gave me a hearty, “I told you so!” when I admitted it.
I bought the DVDs for this show and ended up being likely the most obsesses Serenity shill in my circle of friends because of you.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
PS: Have you seen my licence plate? http://coop.deadsquid.com/gallery/v/la_sep2005/pa020223.jpg.html?g2_fromNavId=x30cc0ee1